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Sophy Ridge On Sunday

Labour party adverts and NHS strike deals | Greg Hands and Wes Streeting

Sophy Ridge On Sunday

Sky News

Politics, News, News Commentary, Government

4.2157 Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Chairman of the Conservative Party Greg Hands admitted the party could lose 1,000 seats at the forthcoming local elections on May 4. Speaking to presenter Trevor Phillips on Sophy Ridge on Sunday, Mr Hands said that the party was “fighting really hard”.

Plus, Labour’s Shadow Health Secretary Wes Streeting defended his party’s recent controversial advertising campaign, saying “the figures speak for themselves”.

The Daily Mirror’s political editor John Stevens and programme editor Scott Beasley join Trevor to analyse this week’s interviews.

Podcast producers: Rosie Gillott and Soila Apparicio
Podcast Editor: Paul Stanworth

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:32.6

Hello and welcome to the Sophie Ridge on Sunday podcast.

0:41.7

Sophie's away this week, so they have hooped me in.

0:45.3

I'm Trevor Phillips.

0:46.2

And also with me is John Stevens, who's the Daily Mirror's political editor and our program editor,

0:53.3

the boss, Scott Beasley.

0:56.8

We started today with Greg Hans, the Conservative Party chairman, and we also spoke to Wes

1:03.6

Streeting, Labor's shadow health secretary, but perhaps more important seen as a future leader and a bellwether of mainstream labour opinion.

1:15.8

John, what did you make overall of the political fortunes right now?

1:21.8

Well, I think it's quite clear that the Tories and friends of the Tories were quite keen to push this narrative that whatever has happened over the last 13 years of the Tory government,

1:32.0

that Rishi Sunat was the missed to fix it, he was going to come in and slowly work his way through all the difficult things in his entry.

1:39.9

But then you just look today at all the problems the government's facing,

1:48.4

and all of the things that he's supposedly fixed are still problems.

1:53.9

So, you know, he got that Brexit deal, but Stormont hasn't been restored.

1:55.9

So that didn't really solve that problem.

2:00.7

They've announced all sorts of things grabbing headlines on small boats and those numbers are still

2:02.8

extremely high with record numbers coming over. The strikes were meant to be sorted. They're

2:09.2

no longer sorted and it looks like we could have an absolutely awful summer with the junior

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